BREAKING: A federal judge finds the Trump admin "did not comply" with his order to fund SNAP benefits. Judge John McConnell has verbally ordered the admin to *fully fund* SNAP benefits for the month of November — by tomorrow.

From the top rope

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team Details TK

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

My queen

New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻

I guess this is why he can't decide whether to go to war against Venezuela or Nigeria -- bc he can no longer tell South America and Africa apart.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Unpaid government workers are being fed by World Central Kitchen…let that sink in just how dire things are.

This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

We've got you 👍

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.

NEW: “I Don’t Feel Safe.” Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force, by @wendicthomas.bsky.social @katieburgess.bsky.social w/ @mlk50.com

Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻 Enter if you dare...🚪

One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan. I never made it out of the House.

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

The Trump admin is rewriting disability eligibility rules. Changes would fall disproportionately on some of Trump's most loyal supporters in red states. Most affected would be 50- to 60-year-olds without a high school or college education who have, for decades, toiled in physically grueling jobs.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

A deeply disturbing plan, but one thing important to clarify here is that these contracts would be for skiptracing, i.e. establishing locations, and NOT for carrying out arrests. So this would not see private contractors grabbing people — although it could mean contractors surveilling immigrants.

Trump's government meets all 12 indicators of democratic erosion. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

will kim is still in ICE detention

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

This is fucking amazing

NEW: This guy has been working hard to make himself the face of Trump's deportation push in Chicago. He knows what that could mean for his own future career—because he knows Trump is watching. www.thebulwark.com/p/this-man-i...

A moving essay by @mollymckew.bsky.social www.greatpower.us/p/the-sacred...

Lee claims Homeland Security would only takeover Wilderness Areas with 100 miles of a border, but Conservation orgs are sounding the alarm that this could open all 112 million acres protected by the Wilderness Act to logging, road building and militarization. wessiler.substack.com/p/mike-lee-i...

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

🧵This horrific story is being reported all over Latin America, but not the US. Randall Gamboa, a Costa Rican, was deported from the US in such a critical health condition it required an ambulance flight. He then died upon his return to Costa Rica after being detained for 8 months by DHS.

A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives

Breaking: Trump just banned states from being able to wipe medical debt from Americans’ credit reports. The Biden-Harris administration had moved to wipe medical debt from credit reports. Now this new rule will keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records.

Donald Trumps plan to subvert the midterms is underway From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Of course he did

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

How is this legal?

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. RFK Jr. must resign.

ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. dansinker.com/posts/202…

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.

Will there be a reckoning ?

It's Prison Banned Books Week — a week dedicated to shining a light on the widespread denial of incarcerated people's freedom to read. We all have a First Amendment right to read and receive information, in and out of prison. Censorship has no place in a democracy.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

We might need more of this

Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.

The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House. That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.